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I bet I’ll remember “biochemistry” – Meta-memory as a function of lexical features and language background
Download2019-03-26
Grace C. Lin, Rachel N. Smith, Chelsea Parlett-Pelleriti, Masha R. Jones, Susanne M. Jaeggi
Previous research has shown that people are more likely to remember positive and negative words compared to neutral words. The present study investigates whether participants with varying language backgrounds would differentially remember words based on the words’ lexical feature of valence. In a...
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I know Spanish Which Romance language should I learn next L2 influence on L3 word recognition
Download2019-03-25
David Beard, Emily Neff, Ally Bucher
The present study addresses historical and contemporary discussions on second and third language vocabulary development, specifically the effects of lexical similarity. Second language learners of Spanish aspiring to learn another romance language completed a translation recognition task with...
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2009
Ménard, N., Van Nhan, N., Le, E.
This qualitative exploratory study of Vietnamese interpreters in Vietnam argues that the progressive dispelling of the interpreters’ invisibility myth must be accompanied by an increased importance paid to interpreters’ identities during their training. Indeed, the type(s) and extent of...
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2019-03-14
Hezekiah Akiva Bacovcin, Amy Goodwin Davies, Robert J. Wilder, David Embick
We report results from two experiments in which the effects of rhyme prime (RP) are investigated by manipulating the properties of the interveners between prime and target. Studies of visual priming report that interveners have differing effects depending on the types of processing they require;...
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2019-03-14
Nattanun Chanchaochai, Ava Creemers
We present two auditory-auditory priming experiments investigating whether decomposition effects for pseudo-related prime-target pairs like corner → CORN are restricted to early visual word recognition [10] or can also be found in auditory processing. Experiment 1 shows no difference in...
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2015-04-20
Podlubny, Ryan G., Geeraert, Kristina, Tucker, Benjamin V.
The present study explores the possibility of systematic acoustic differences that could be used to differentiate ‘homophones’. This study investigates productions of like in western Canadian English, focusing specifically on acoustic characteristics and whether they differ across multiple...
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2019-07-01
The Jodï are a small indigenous group of approximately 1,000 people living in relative isolation in the Venezuelan Sierra de Maigualida. Their language has generally been treated as an isolate or left unclassified in the language classification literature. However, different researchers have...